---
type: source
title: "Futardio: P2P Protocol fundraise goes live"
author: "futard.io"
url: "https://www.futard.io/launch/H5ng9t1tPRvGx8QoLFjjuXKdkUjicNXiADFdqB6t8ifJ"
date: 2026-03-26
domain: internet-finance
format: data
status: null-result
tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana]
event_type: launch
---

## Launch Details
- Project: P2P Protocol
- Description: Decentralised Stablecoin On/Off Ramp for Emerging Markets
- Funding target: $6,000,000.00
- Total committed: $6,852.00
- Status: Live
- Launch date: 2026-03-26
- URL: https://www.futard.io/launch/H5ng9t1tPRvGx8QoLFjjuXKdkUjicNXiADFdqB6t8ifJ

## Team / Description

**Description**

P2P Protocol is a **live, revenue-generating, non-custodial** fiat-to-stablecoin on/off-ramp. We are a **leading decentralized on/off-ramp**, processing the highest monthly volume in this segment. The protocol matches users to merchants **on-chain based on staked USDC**, **Most trades settle in under 90 seconds**, and generates revenue entirely from **transaction fees**. We are currently live on Base and launching soon on Solana.

**Problem**

Billions of people in emerging markets need to move between local fiat and stablecoins. **Centralized ramps custody user funds** and can freeze accounts, censor users, expose user data to governments, or shut down entirely. Existing P2P platforms lack on-chain accountability, violate user privacy, disputes are settled off-chain, and these platforms are **infested with fraud and scams**. On platforms like Binance P2P, **nearly one in three participants report experiencing scams** according to community surveys in emerging markets. The result is high fraud, poor reliability, and no path to composability.

**Solution**

P2P Protocol coordinates fiat-to-stablecoin trades **without custodying fiat**. A user clicks "Buy USDC" or "Sell USDC" and the protocol assigns a merchant **on-chain based on their staked USDC**. Merchants provide fiat liquidity on local payment rails (UPI, PIX, QRIS, etc.) while **settlement, matching, dispute windows, and fee routing all execute on-chain** with no backend server or PII retention.

Fraud prevention is handled by the **Proof-of-Credibility** system, which combines **ZK-TLS social verification**, on-chain **Reputation Points**, and **Reputation-based tiering** to gate transaction limits. New users verify social accounts and government IDs through **ZK-KYC** (zero-knowledge proofs via Reclaim Protocol), earn Reputation Points with each successful trade, and unlock higher tiers as their on-chain credibility grows. This naturally gates new accounts and reduces fraud surface to **fewer than 1 in 1,000 transactions**, all without exposing personal data.

Operations are decentralized through **Circles of Trust**: community-backed groups of merchants run by Circle Admins who stake $P2P. Delegators stake $P2P to earn revenue share, and insurance pools cover disputes and slashing. Every participant has skin in the game through staked capital. The protocol earns revenue from transaction fees alone, with **no token emissions or inflationary incentives**.

**Traction**

- **2 Years** of live transaction volume with $4Mn monthly volume recorded in Feb 2026.
- **$578K in Annual revenue run rate**, Unit breakeven, expected to contribute up to **20% of revenue as gross profit** to the treasury from June 2026
- **27% average month-on-month growth** sustained over past 16 months. 
- Live in **India, Brazil, Argentina, and Indonesia**.
- All protocol metrics **verifiable on-chain**: https://dune.com/p2pme/latest
- **NPS of 80**; 65% of users say they would be disappointed if they could no longer use the product.
- Targeting **$500M monthly volume** over the next 18 months.

**Market and Growth**

The fiat-to-crypto on/off-ramp market in **emerging economies** is massive. **Over 1.5 billion people** have mobile phones but lack reliable access to stablecoins. A fast, low-cost, non-custodial path between fiat and stablecoins is essential infrastructure for this population, expanding across **Asia, Africa, Latin America, and MENA**.

Three channels drive growth: (1) **direct user acquisition** via the p2p.me and coins.me apps, (2) a **B2B SDK** launching June 2026 that lets any wallet, app, or fintech embed P2P Protocol's on/off-ramp rails, and (3) **community-led expansion via Circles of Trust** where local operators onboard P2P merchants in new countries and earn revenue share. Post TGE, geographic expansion is permissionless through Circles of Trust and token-holder-driven parameter governance.

On the supply side, anyone with a bank account and $250 in capital can become a liquidity provider (P2P Merchant) and earn passive income. The protocol creates liquidity providers the way ride-hailing platforms onboard drivers — anyone with capital and a bank account can participate.This **bottom-up liquidity engine** is deeply local, self-propagating, and hard to replicate.


**Monthly Allowance Breakup: $175,000** 

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- Team salaries (25 staff)       $75,000
- Growth & Marketing             $50,000
- Legal & operations                $35,000
- Infrastructure                         $15,000

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**Roadmap and Milestones**

**Q2 2026** (months 1-3):
- B2B SDK launch for third-party integrations
- First on-chain treasury allocation
- Multi-currency expansion (additional fiat corridors)

**Q3 2026** (months 4-6):
- Solana deployment
- Additional country launches across Africa, MENA and LATAM
- Phase 1 governance: Insurance pools, disputes and claims. 

**Q4 2026** (months 7-9):
- Phase 2 governance: token-holder voting activates for non-critical parameters
- Community governance proposals enabled
- Fiat-Fiat remittance corridor launches

**Q1 2027** (months 10-12):
- Growth across 20+ countries in Asia, Africa, MENA and LATAM
- Operating profitability target
- Phase 3 governance preparation: foundation veto sunset planning

**Financial Projections**

The protocol is forecast to reach **operating profitability by mid-2027**. At 30% monthly volume growth in early expansion phases, projected monthly volume reaches **~$333M by July 2027** with **~$383K monthly operating profit**. Revenue is driven entirely by **transaction fees (~2%-6% variable spread)** on a working product. Full P&L projections are available in the docs.

**Token and Ownership**

Infrastructure as critical as this should not remain under the control of a single operator. **$P2P is an ownership token.** Protocol IP, treasury funds, and mint authority are controlled by token holders through **futarchy-based governance**, not by any single team or entity. Decisions that affect token supply must pass through a **decision-market governance mechanism**, where participants stake real capital on whether a proposal increases or decreases token value. Proposals the market predicts will harm value are automatically rejected.

**No insider tokens unlock at TGE.** **50% of total supply will float at launch** (10M sale + 2.9M liquidity).

- **Investor tokens (20% / 5.16M):** **Fully locked for 12 months.** 5 equal unlocks of 20% each: first at month 12, then at months 15, 18, 21, and 24. Fully unlocked at month 24. Locked tokens cannot be staked.
- **Team tokens (30% / 7.74M):** **Performance-based only.** 12 months cliff period. 5 equal tranches unlocking at 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, and 32x ICO price, post the cliff period. Price measured via 3-month TWAP. The team benefits when the protocol grows.

- Past P2P protocol users get a preferential allocation at the same valuation as all the ICO investors based on their XP on https://p2p.foundation/

**Value flows to holders because the protocol processes transactions, not because new tokens are printed.** Exit liquidity comes from participants who want to stake, govern, and earn from a working protocol, not from greater-fool dynamics.


**Past Investors** 

- **Reclaim protocol** (https://reclaimprotocol.org/) Angel invested in P2P Protocol in March 2023.  They own **3.45%** of the supply and Invested $80K 
- **Alliance DAO** (https://alliance.xyz/) in March 2024. They own **4.66%** of supply and Invested $350K
- **Multicoin Capital** (https://multicoin.capital/) is the first institutional investor to invest in P2P Protocol. They invested $1.4 Million in January 2025 at $15Mn FDV and own **9.33%** of the supply.
- **Coinbase Ventures** (https://www.coinbase.com/ventures) invested $500K in P2P Protocol in Feb 2025 at 19.5Mn FDV. They own **2.56%** of the supply. 


**Team**

- **Sheldon (CEO and Co-founder):** Alumnus of a top Indian engineering school. Previously scaled a food delivery business to $2M annual revenue before exit to India's leading food delivery platform.
- **Bytes (CTO and Co-founder):** Former engineer at a leading Indian crypto exchange and a prominent ZK-proof protocol. Deep expertise in the ZK technology stack powering the protocol.
- **Donkey (COO):** Former COO of Brazil's largest food and beverage franchise. Leads growth strategy and operations across Latin America.
- **Gitchad (CDO, Decentralisation Officer):** Former co-founder of two established Cosmos ecosystem protocols. Extensive experience scaling and decentralizing blockchain protocols.
- **Notyourattorney (CCO) and ThatWeb3lawyer (CFO):** Former partners at a full-stack Web3 law firm. Compliance, legal frameworks, governance, and financial strategy across blockchain ventures.


**Links**

- [Pitch Deck](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4fWx4jr_HfphDmSmsQ8MJvwV685lcvS/view)
- [Website](https://p2p.foundation)
- [Docs](https://docs.p2p.foundation)
- [Financial Projections](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vRpx5U6UnhLkNPs4hD2L50ZchFTF39t0NUs3-PcY-6qQpKqCUcghmBz9-8uR-sSjZItzrsT8yz5jPnR/pubhtml) 
- [On-chain metrics](https://dune.com/p2pme/latest)
- [P2P.me App](https://p2p.me/) 
- [Coins.me App](https://coins.me/)
- [P2P Foundation Twitter/X](https://x.com/p2pdotfound)
- [P2P.me India Twitter/X](https://x.com/P2Pdotme)
- [P2P.me Brazil Twitter/X](https://x.com/p2pmebrasil)
- [P2P.me Argentina Twitter/X](https://x.com/p2pmeargentina)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/p2pfoundation)
- [Protocol Dashboard](https://ops.p2p.lol/)

## Links

- Website: https://p2p.foundation
- Twitter: https://x.com/P2Pdotme
- Telegram: https://t.me/P2Pdotme

## Agent Notes

**Why this matters:** P2P.me is the most sophisticated ownership alignment tokenomics in the MetaDAO ICO ecosystem. The performance-gated team vesting (zero benefit below 2x ICO price, then five tranches at 2x/4x/8x/16x/32x via 3-month TWAP) is a genuine mechanism design innovation. This is the primary live test of Belief #2 (ownership alignment turns network effects generative). It launches into a psychologically and economically challenged Futardio context (Superclaw below NAV, 50/52 refunds).

**What surprised me:** The institutional backing depth: Multicoin Capital ($1.4M), Coinbase Ventures ($500K), Alliance DAO, Reclaim Protocol — prior investors of real credibility. The "team transparency gap" documented in Session 11 doesn't exist at the level that matters: the principals are pseudonymous publicly but have been KYC'd by institutional investors who staked capital. The community can use the institutional backing as a trust proxy.

**What I expected but didn't find:** Evidence that $6M minimum is within reach. Launch-day commitment of $6,852 with 4 days remaining is very low relative to target. Polymarket says 99.8% for >$6M — this tension is the core research question for March 26.

**Critical revenue number discrepancy:** Pine Analytics says $327.4K cumulative revenue. Futardio archive says $578K annual revenue run rate. Resolution: cumulative ≠ annual. If the business accelerated, recent months could annualize to $578K even with lower historical cumulative total. Or Pine's "cumulative" is earlier data. Watch for clarification in pitch docs.

**Structural context:** P2P.me launches the day after Superclaw filed a liquidation proposal. Any sophisticated participant is aware that (a) the only non-meta-bet success on Futardio is seeking wind-down, and (b) 50 other launches REFUNDED. P2P.me needs to demonstrate it's categorically different — the institutional backing and 2 years of live traction attempt to do exactly this.

**KB connections:**
- [[ownership alignment turns network effects generative]] (Belief #2 — this is the primary test case)
- [[Delphi Digital study predicts 30-40 percent passive token holders in new projects]] — 50% TGE float + Delphi prediction = specific structural headwind to watch
- [[performance-gated team vesting eliminates early insider selling]] (CC1 from Session 11 — not yet in KB)
- Circles of Trust model connects to [[living capital vehicles as community-owned investment infrastructure]] via the staked capital → revenue share → aligned growth pattern

**Extraction hints:**
1. **Performance-gated vesting mechanism** (most extract-ready claim): The 2x/4x/8x/16x/32x TWAP structure with 12-month cliff before any performance gate triggers. Cite both Pine Analytics and Futardio archive for cross-validation.
2. **Institutional backing as futarchy trust proxy**: P2P.me's prior investors (Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures) function as trust signals in a futarchy governance market because community participants lack independent due diligence capacity — futarchy ratifies VC judgments rather than replacing them.
3. **Revenue trajectory**: $578K annualized with 27% MoM growth and a B2B SDK pipeline is the bull case — extract as a conditional claim: "P2P.me's B2B SDK + Circles of Trust model represents a plausible 10-100x volume growth path IF B2B adoption materializes in Q2-Q3 2026"

**Context:** P2P.me (P2P Protocol) is a non-custodial stablecoin on/off-ramp serving emerging markets (India, Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina). Built on Base, expanding to Solana. ICO runs March 26-30 via MetaDAO futarchy platform. $6M target at $0.60/token, $15.5M FDV.

## Curator Notes (structured handoff for extractor)

PRIMARY CONNECTION: [[ownership alignment turns network effects generative]] (Belief #2 — performance-gated vesting is the mechanism implementation; B2B SDK + Circles of Trust are the network effect channels)

WHY ARCHIVED: This is the most mechanism-design-sophisticated ICO in MetaDAO history. The performance-gated team vesting claim (CC1 from Session 11) needs this source for extraction. ALSO: the institutional backing contrast with Nvision ($99 raised) is essential for the futarchy capital formation hypothesis.

EXTRACTION HINT: Three extractions: (1) performance-gated vesting mechanism claim (extract now, experimental); (2) P2P.me business fundamentals snapshot (extract after ICO closes + 30 days of trading data); (3) institutional backing as futarchy trust proxy (extract after comparison with Nvision failure is documented). Update archive status to processed after extraction.

## Raw Data

- Launch address: `H5ng9t1tPRvGx8QoLFjjuXKdkUjicNXiADFdqB6t8ifJ`
- Token: P2P (P2P)
- Token mint: `P2PXup1ZvMpCDkJn3PQxtBYgxeCSfH39SFeurGSmeta`
- Version: v0.7
